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laterals more prolonged in front, the median more prolonged behind, 
reaching almost to the posterior margin, which is divided into eleven- 
quadrangular festoons, the integument often transparent, and allowing the- 
ramifications of the intestines to show through as blackish, radiating lines. 
When fully engorged, two grooves in the anterior half, diverging behind 
and a little concave outward ; three more in the middle posterior, of which 
a median, straight and two laterals, convex outward ; stigmatic plates oval,, 
with a prolongation, well marked, forming the postero-external angle. 
Rostrum with base widened into prominent points behind the insertion of 
the palpi, porose areas small, circular, and separated by more 
than their diameter ; mandibles with process of inner apophysis 
elongate transversely and tridentate, outer apophysis tridentate,. 
terminal tooth small and sub-ventral ; hypostome a little spatulate, 
shorter than the palpi, provided with three rows of teeth on each 
half, almost, equal in size, each row including about 12 teeth, of which the' 
size diminishes a little from front backward-; palpi short and strongy 
longer and more slender than in male, with sides not so angular, the first 
three articles bearing on their inner ventral edges three prominences, very 
marked on the first article ; a row of stout spines, a little dentate, directed 
inward and forward, the outer edge of article I strongly constricted and 
concave, which produces a sort of constriction of the rostrum at the base 
of the palpi. Legs rather slender, dark brown ; coxae longer than wide ; 
those of the last three pairs provided with a small spine near the anterior 
external angle, and a blunt tuberosity on the external third of the posterior- 
margin ; stiff hairs on all the articles, especially on dorsal and ventral 
edges of third to last ; tarsi of three last pairs terminated by a curved 
claw, preceded by a small blunt spine on the ventral edge. 
Hosts. — The domestic animals, sheep, goats, cattle, horse, ass, dog ; 
wild boar ; hedgehog. 
II abitat— Southern France, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Itaty, Corsica,. 
Sardinia, Algeria, throughout West Africa and East Africa, Congo,. 
Abyssinia, Cape Colony, Portuguese. East Africa, Transvaal, Cuba, Haiti,, 
Jamaica. 
This tick has been frequently mistaken for the brown tick, which it 
very closely resembles. It is not of very common occurrence in the Trans- 
vaal, but seems to be more common in Northern Africa and Southern. 
Europe. 
RHIPICEPH ALU S NITENS. NEUMANN. 
The Shiny Brown Tick. 
Rhipiceplialus nitens , Neumann (1904). 
Male. — Body oval, narrow in front, wide behind ; length 4 mm., 
(rostrum included), width 2.5 mm ; general colour reddish yellow. Shield 
shining, covering all the dorsal surface ; cervical grooves not very 
deep ; eyes flat, yellowish ; marginal grooves well marked, extending- 
from the eye to the extreme festoon ; festoons very apparent, 
the median one Smaller than the neighbouring ones, or almost as large ; 
punctuations numerous, unequal, superficial, mostly very fine, the large- 
ones distributed along the borders and irregularly in the anterior region. 
Anal plates semi-lunate, the inner edge very concave, the outer edge 
